IPCIPC announced the May 2017 findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board Statistical Program. PCB sales and orders were both down compared to last year. Weaker orders caused the PCB book-to-bill ratio to retreat but it remained positive at 1.05. READ MORE

IPCDeveloped in response to requests from IPC members, IPC has launched the Pulse of the Electronics Industry, a new global data service that promises to generate valuable forward-looking data for the electronics industry. READ MORE

IPCLast week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released three final rules as required under the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (LCSA) passed one year ago to reform and update the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). READ MORE

IPCIn part two of IPC’s four-part video series, IPC President and CEO John Mitchell discusses how the Trump Administration and Congress could help advance the U.S. manufacturing industry by focusing on federal investment in research and development infrastructure. READ MORE

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Mycronic MY700 high-speed jet dispenserThe all new MY700 high-speed jet dispenser combines solder paste jet printing with jet dispensing of adhesives, UV materials, epoxies and more. The unique dual-head, dual-lane design does it all within the same compact machine and process step, with micrometer precision and at speeds of more than one million dots per hour. Click Here to learn more.

IPCAs 68 nations signed last week an OECD convention to prevent aggressive tax planning, IPC would like to remind the importance of tax incentives to promote R&D in technology intensive industries like the electronics industry.READ MORE

IPCManufacturing Day (MFG DAY) is an annual celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers. Although any day can be a Manufacturing Day at your facility, the official date this year is Friday, October 6. READ MORE

IPCThe newly designed Online Store is easier to use, simpler to navigate and make purchases quickly. Notable highlights of the store include: improved search features; product list – save products you are Interested in for future purchase; new transaction reporting and improved order management. READ MORE

IPCTo better serve the electronics industry, IPC is providing a fully marked up "redline document" of IPC-7711/21C, Rework, Modification and Repair of Electronics Assemblies. This redline document is designed to show side by side comparisons of the changes. READ MORE

IPCPCB Technology Trends 2016, a global study published this month by IPC, is now available. The survey-based study shows how printed circuit board manufacturers are meeting today’s technology demands and looks at the changes expected by 2021 that will affect the whole industry.READ MORE

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IPC has launched IPC Global Marketplace, an innovative buyer’s guide that enables electronics industry professionals to easily locate the products and services they need to effectively run their business.
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IPCIPC invites engineers, researchers, academics, technical experts and industry leaders to submit abstracts for IPC APEX EXPO® 2018 to be held at the San Diego Convention Center, February 24-March 1, 2018.READ MORE

R&D MagazineElectrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power — 628 times lower power than the state of the art and about 10 billion times smaller than a watt. This "near-zero-power" temperature sensor could extend the battery life of wearable or implantable devices that monitor body temperature, smart home monitoring systems, internet of things devices and environmental monitoring systems.READ MORE

Wiley via ScienceDailyFlexible, wearable electronics require equally flexible, wearable power sources. Scientists have now introduced an extraordinarily stretchable and compressible polyelectrolyte which, in combination with carbon nanotube composite paper electrodes, forms a supercapacitor that can be stretched to 1,000 percent in length and compressed to 50 percent in thickness with even gaining, not losing capacity.READ MORE

Phys.orgPrinted electronic transistor circuits and displays in which the colour of individual pixels can be changed, are two of many applications of ground-breaking research at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University. New groundbreaking results on these topics have been published in the prestigious scientific journal Science Advances.
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